Letters to the editor, February 2

The government is coming to take your guns and if that makes you
shake in your BVDS; if it makes you want to rush out and buy another gun; the
NRA and the gun manufacturers of America know how to push your buttons.

I’ve heard that tired old pitch for 50 years, and you know nobody
from the government has knocked on my door and said “gimme.”

Be honest: has President Obama said or even suggested he wants
your guns? No, he hasn’t, but the NRA has tried to twist a stand against
assault rifles and multi-bullet gun clips into “the government is coming to get
your guns.’’

The NRA is supported and takes its marching orders from the gun
manufacturers of America and they could care less what happens to and with
their guns once they leave the manufacturing plant and are sold in stores.

They don’t care if their guns kill fathers, mothers, babies or
you as long as the cash keeps rolling in. They don’t care if their guns
eventually make their way into the hands of criminals.

When is the last time you had to pull a gun in self-defense? When
is the last time you had to repel a mob with an assault rifle?

The weapon manufacturers want you to fear that you will have to
in a hypothetical future. Why? That fear translates into gun sales. Gun sales
mean more cash and that is the only goal and purpose they have.

John
Nance Garner, Denton

Stop power grab

Our founders knew history and understood human nature.

James Madison wrote, “If men were angels, no government would be
necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls
on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be
administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first
enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it
to control itself.”

We are all tempted to take advantage of others, and we too often
succumb to that temptation. This condition is made worse when there is a
power relationship in­volved. As Lord Acton stated, “Power tends to corrupt,
and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”

The primary purpose of government is to protect citizens against
external and internal predators. It must therefore have more power than
potential predators. But since government is administered by human beings also
subject to the temptation to abuse, and since they exercise power over us,
which involves additional temptation, government must never be allowed more
power than what is needed to fulfill that purpose.

Otherwise government itself may be­come the worst predator
of all, as history shows. Government abuse caused the death of more than 100
million people in the 20th century alone, as well as the suffering of many
millions more.

Let’s not become such statistics ourselves. Let’s vigorously
guard our innate and inalienable human rights, including those listed in
the Constitution. Let’s stop arbitrary increases in government control and
power to abuse.

Lee
Nahrgang, Denton

Clueless liberals

The recent letter by Jim Stodola [DRC,
Jan. 26] is a perfect example of the ignorance and hypocrisy of liberals. If he
had taken just a few minutes to examine what the liberals have put forward as
banned assault weapons, he would find that his standard pistol clip and his
shotgun would most probably be classified as an assault weapon.

Just adding a pistol grip to his shotgun would make it one, even
if the magazine capacity meets their extremist rule. But like most liberals, he
would never want facts or any type of intelligence to get in the way their
ranting.

He thought he was funny when he obviously wished that gun owners
would use their weapons on themselves or family. Now that is the compassionate
nonviolent liberal attitude we see regularly from the leftist.

Maybe someone should use the Oba­maCare rule and have his doctor
report to the government that he has owned guns.

It is not the gun that kills someone; it is the person using it.
Because of the liberal assault on institutionalizing the mentally ill, these
people are roaming loose in the country without proper treatment. So once again
liberals have no clue of the tragedy that their actions cause.

They love “choice” until it is a right to protect people from the
union thugs who demand they join or lose their job.

Lord forbid that a woman contemplating aborting her child
actually get to see and understand exactly what she is about to kill.

Liberals, always clueless.

Hyme
Solomon, Denton

Mental exams

First, I think our president, Obama, the vice president, and his
top staff should have been considered for a mental exam prior to taking office.

As Obama said, “anyone trying to hide something must have
something in his background to hide.”

The news now coming from this president is “the military leaders”
must take a litmus exam to see if they will order to fire on individuals, U.S.
citizens, and if not, they will be relieved of their commands.

My concern with this is Homeland Security has ordered loads of
assault rifles and loads of hollow-point ammunition.

Who are these weapons to be used against?

The last report is that the head of Central Command, Marine Gen.
Mattis, refused to give an answer to his litmus questions, and is being
relieved of his command in March.

I am a retired military officer and the only U.S. citizen I would
consider firing on would be one breaking into my home, and I would fire on him
under the Second Amend­ment of our Constitution.

Just think, we have almost four more years of this — what vote
did you put in the election box?

Ray
Roberts, Denton

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